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Global Digital Humanities Symposium - Registration Closes 27 March! | Simposio Global de Humanidades Digitales - Plazo de inscripción: 27 de marzo
by Mapes, Kristen 25 Mar '26

25 Mar '26

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. Dear colleagues, Free Registration<https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/register/event/74923> for the 11th <https://msuglobaldh.org/> Global Digital Humanities Symposium <https://msuglobaldh.org/> closes THIS WEEK - 27 March. This year’s event will take place in-person on Monday, 13 April at Michigan State University (USA), virtually on Zoom and YouTube on Tuesday and Wednesday, 14-15 April, and in-person on Friday, 17 April at Universidad de Monterrey (Mexico). All days will be livestreamed. During the Virtual Symposium, we will support live interpretation of presentations from English into Spanish and from Spanish into English. We are delighted to feature virtual keynote presentations from Evelin Heidel from Wikimedistas de Uruguay, Cindy A. Nguyen from UCLA, and in-person keynote presentations from Rayvon Fouché from Northwestern University on 13 April and Hugo Solís García from Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana on 17 April. The daily schedule of the Symposium is listed below, and you can explore the full program<http://msuglobaldh.org/schedule/>, including presentation abstracts. Virtual Symposium Tuesday, 14 April<https://msuglobaldh.org/schedule-detailed/#tuesday> 12:00-6:15pm EDT / 5:00-11:15pm Nigeria / 6:00pm-12:15am April 15 CEST / 12:00-6:15am April 15 Beijing Wednesday, 15 April<https://msuglobaldh.org/schedule-detailed/#tuesday> 9:00am-5:00pm EDT / 2:00-10:00 pm Nigeria / 3:00-11:00pm CEST / 9:00pm-5:00am 16 April Beijing In-Person Symposium Monday, 13 April<https://msuglobaldh.org/schedule-detailed/#monday> (East Lansing, Michigan, USA) 8:30am-7:30pm EDT / 1:30pm-12:30am A 14pril Nigeria / 2:30pm-1:30am 14 April CEST / 8:30pm-7:30am 14 April Beijing Friday, 17 April<https://msuglobaldh.org/schedule-detailed/#friday> (Monterrey, México,) 8:00am-5:30pm CST / 10:00am-7:30pm EDT / 3:00pm-12:30am 18 April Nigeria / 4:00pm-1:30am 18 April CEST / 10:00pm-7:30am 18 April Beijing Register here to attend. <https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/register/event/74923> We hope you will be able to join us! Sincerely, Kristen Mapes, on behalf of the Global DH Symposium Planning Committee ---------- Estimada comunidad global de Humanidades Digitales: La inscripción gratuita<https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/register/event/74923> para el 11º Simposio Global de Humanidades Digitales cierra ESTA SEMANA, viernes 27 de marzo. Los eventos de este año tendrán lugar en persona el lunes 13 de abril en Michigan State University (EEUU), de forma virtual en Zoom y YouTube el martes 14 y el miércoles 15 de abril, y en persona de nuevo el viernes 17 de abril en la Universidad de Monterrey (México). Todos los días serán retransmitidos en vivo por YouTube. Durante los dos días virtuales del simposio habrá interpretación inglés-español disponible. Estamos emocionadas de contar con las ponencias virtuales de Evelin Heidel de los Wikimedistas de Uruguay y Cindy A. Nguyen from UCLA (EEUU) así como la ponencia en persona de Rayvon Fouché de Northwestern University (EEUU) el 13 de abril y Hugo Solís García de la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (México) el 17 de abril. Pueden consultar el programa completo<http://msuglobaldh.org/schedule/> del Simposio en nuestra página web. Espero que puedan unirse, En gratitud, Kristen Mapes, de parte del comité organizador del Simposio Global de Humanidades Digitales Kristen Mapes Interim Director of Digital Humanities, College of Arts & Letters Michigan State University East Lansing, MI kmapes(a)msu.edu<mailto:kmapes@msu.edu> she/her

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CfP Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence in African Studies workshop, Stellenbosch, South Africa
by Menno Van Zaanen 17 Mar '26

17 Mar '26

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ ═ CALL FOR PAPERS ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ ═ A DFG Programme Point Sud Workshop Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence in African Studies: Towards Sustainable and Equitable Practices 21–24 September 2026 · STIAS, Stellenbosch, South Africa ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ABOUT THE WORKSHOP The integration of digital humanities (DH) and artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the production of knowledge in African Studies, offering new opportunities for innovative analysis, dynamic visualisation and cross-cultural research. Yet this shift raises urgent questions regarding equitable access, the representation of African languages, and the suitability of methodologies. Current large language models underrepresent African languages, digital scholarly infrastructures remain optimised for English, and digitisation pipelines that produce AI-ready data are themselves shaped by political choices about what to digitise, how to describe it, and who controls access. While recent initiatives on digital sovereignty in Africa have centred on policy and regulation, this workshop shifts attention to methodological practice. It asks how DH methods and AI transform research in African Studies, and how we can design, evaluate, and sustain these methods under African conditions. By bringing together scholars, independent researchers and practitioners from Africa, Europe, and beyond, the event will foster North–South and South–South dialogue at the intersection of African epistemologies and digital methods, moving from description to design. ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── CONVENORS - Frédérick Madore, University of Bayreuth - Vincent Hiribarren, King's College London - Emmanuel Ngue Um, University of Yaoundé 1 - Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── THEMATIC AXES The programme is structured around the following thematic axes: 1. Transforming Research Methods through AI and Digital Tools in African Studies This axis asks a fundamental question: how are AI and DH methods changing the study of African cultures, languages, and histories? Participants will present concrete uses of AI to analyse multilingual texts, employ computer vision to study visual culture and historical artefacts, and develop digital mapping to trace cultural movements and connections. We will evaluate what works for different kinds of African cultural materials, identify adaptations required for local contexts, and specify where computational approaches can complement—rather than replace—interpretive scholarship. The goal is clear: practical guidance for integrating these methods while preserving the interpretive richness that defines the humanities. 2. Building Sustainable Research Infrastructures from African Perspectives Moving beyond policy discourse, this axis asks what it takes to build and sustain digital research capacity within African institutions and communities. We will examine practical obstacles—limited connectivity, unstable funding, and scarce training data for local languages—and showcase South–South collaboration models that have navigated these constraints. Participants will share strategies for developing tools that utilise available resources rather than assuming high-end infrastructure. Key questions include how to keep research outputs accessible to the communities being studied, how to train the next generation of African DH scholars, and how to secure sustainable funding that does not depend solely on institutions in the Global North. The focus is on concrete, scalable approaches to durable capacity. 3. Centring African Knowledge Systems in Digital Research Design This axis poses a methodological challenge: how can digital research tools respect and incorporate African ways of knowing? Rather than retrofitting existing techniques to African materials, we explore how African epistemologies can shape the tools themselves. Case studies will show community knowledge informing database structures, oral traditions testing text-centred analytical frameworks, and local classification systems improving standard metadata schemas. We will consider protocols for culturally sensitive materials, interface design that does not privilege European languages, and criteria to ensure that AI systems trained on African data primarily serve African research needs. Here, decolonisation moves from critique to construction. ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── WORKSHOP FORMAT & LANGUAGE POLICY The workshop will run in a hybrid format to maximise participation and impact. In-person sessions at STIAS will be paired with remote access via Zoom for those unable to travel. Participants will pre-circulate draft papers in English or French one month in advance, each with a bilingual abstract to support preparation. To address language barriers, the workshop will operate bilingually in English and French. Presenters may speak in either language; where possible, a bilingual chair will moderate discussion and provide brief consecutive interpretation where needed. Recent advances in AI speech recognition and machine translation now enable near-real-time captioning; we will deploy these tools in the room and on Zoom. All presenters will supply slides with bilingual titles and key terms, and a one-page terminology handout in both languages. Together, these measures encourage meaningful participation in Africa’s Anglophone and Francophone communities, which are often divided by institutional and linguistic boundaries, and provide immediate, practical benefits for multilingual colleagues. ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── SUBMISSION GUIDELINES We invite proposals for individual papers (20-minute presentations). Submissions may be in English or French. Proposals of up to 500 words should be emailed to the convenors by 30 April 2026. Each submission must include: (i) a title; (ii) an abstract outlining the context, central question, and methodological approach; and (iii) a 100-word biographical note indicating the applicant’s discipline and institutional affiliation. Please send your proposals to the following addresses: - Frédérick Madore: frederick.madore(a)uni-bayreuth.de - Vincent Hiribarren: vincent.hiribarren(a)kcl.ac.uk - Emmanuel Ngue Um: ngueum(a)gmail.com - Menno van Zaanen: menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── PUBLICATION Our goal is to publish selected papers from the workshop as a special issue in the Journal of the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (JDHASA), subject to agreement with the journal’s editorial board. All submitted full papers will undergo peer review. Authors whose papers are selected for the special issue will be expected to revise their manuscripts in line with reviewer feedback before final publication. ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── SELECTION CRITERIA & INCLUSIVITY Selection will prioritise gender equity, support for early-career scholars based in sub-Saharan Africa, and balance across disciplines and regions. In addition to scholars, we will include practitioner-developers by directly engaging the teams behind DH tools. Their participation will help us to assess user needs and the feasibility of embedding African ways of knowing in tool design. DH remains gender-imbalanced; accordingly, the open call will explicitly encourage applications from women and weight gender equity in review. We will intentionally include Africa-based, diasporic, and returning scholars. Recognising uneven DH capacity, particularly in several Francophone regions, we will aim for a majority of Africa-based participants and amplify Francophone voices through targeted outreach and reserved places for early-career researchers. The workshop will uphold equal opportunity regardless of gender, religion, or other sociocultural differences. ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── KEY DATES - Submission Deadline: 30 April 2026 - Notification of Acceptance: 15 May 2026 - Deadline for Full Papers: 15 August 2026 - Workshop Dates: 21–24 September 2026 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ ═ https://fmadore.github.io/stias-dh-ai-workshop-2026 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ ═ -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received the e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender or reply e-mail and delete the e-mail and its attachments (where appropriate) from your system. ________________________________

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CFP: Immersive Technologies in Practice: Virtual Storytelling in Global Research, , Oxford Brookes University
by Eric White 16 Mar '26

16 Mar '26

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. Dear Global DH Community, We are inviting papers, demos, and practice-based presentations for a one-day hybrid international symposium on immersive technologies in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, with a focus on global storytelling, co-creative XR spaces, and the role of immersive infrastructures in enabling inclusive, research-led practice. Immersive Technologies in Practice: Virtual Storytelling in Global Research<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeSvrcT6Aj7APXnb23hE9NiA44-llOdvxB…> Proposal Submission deadline: 31 March 2026 Symposium Date: 17 June 2026 This event showcases and develops conversations as both a research forum for immersive technology scholarship and practice, and a promotional research showcase supporting contributors’ work and building a pipeline toward publication (including potential alignment with the journal Immersive Technologies). Hosted at Oxford Brookes University’s Simulation Lab, our Marston Campus venue will enable scholars and artists to share any examples of immersive experiences created for single VR wearable users to an entire room of delegates - onsite or via hybrid online presentation. We are seeking interdisciplinary submissions that push and question the boundaries of immersive technologies within the wide remit of STEAM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math), with a focus on global storytelling. We particularly welcome submissions that engage with immersive technologies as infrastructure, method, pedagogy, and knowledge exchange, and that test how XR can be made legible and collaborative beyond the single-headset experience. We invite scholars and postgraduate students to propose talks, presentations, and immersive experiences around, but not limited to, the following topics: * AR/VR/Mixed reality devices, interaction and rendering * Multimodal display technologies (e.g., visual display, 3D spatial sound, virtual smell, force-feedback display) * Haptic technologies * Tracking & context-aware technologies (e.g., motion capture, IoT, wearables) * Intelligent technology (e.g., ML, AI) * Design approaches and techniques (e.g., user-centered design, activity-centered design, etc.) * Openness, Transparency and Reproducibility * Representation and behavioural fidelity * Digital humans and avatars * Content and stimuli design * Interactivity * Robustness and reliability * Personalisation and customisation * Digital Wellbeing and Therapeutics Please use the following form to submit a proposal: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeSvrcT6Aj7APXnb23hE9NiA44-llOdvxB… For call for paper queries, demo feasibility, or accessibility needs, please contact: M.Johnson(a)brookes.ac.uk<mailto:M.Johnson@brookes.ac.uk> and ewhite(a)brookes.ac.uk<mailto:ewhite@brookes.ac.uk>. All best wishes, Miriam and Eric All best wishes, Eric -- Dr. Eric White<https://www.brookes.ac.uk/profiles/staff/eric-white> (he/him) Associate Professor in American Literature UKRN Open Research Institutional Lead Oxford Brookes University Recent book<https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-reading-machines-in-the-modernist…> Transatlantic Avant-Gardes<https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-transatlantic-avant-gardes.html> Edition<https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-readies-for-bob-brown-s-machine.h…> Blog<https://euppublishingblog.com/2020/09/14/modernism-and-lost-technology/> Impact<https://www.brookes.ac.uk/research/research-impact-showcase/driving-digital…> EUP Series<https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/series-edinburgh-critical-studies-in-a…> Media<https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001q0rh> Podcast<https://radar.brookes.ac.uk/radar/items/efd7a4d3-9330-40d7-a9c3-4d93ea992e2…>

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DH colloquium 25 March 2026: Stephanie Santschi: Drawing from the Crowd: Combining Citizen Science and Computer Vision to Study Historical Japanese Prints
by Menno Van Zaanen 09 Mar '26

09 Mar '26

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. Mark your agenda for another DH colloquium! When: 25 March 2026 at 15:00 SAST (note the non-standard time!) Who: Stephanie Santschi What: Drawing from the Crowd: Combining Citizen Science and Computer Vision to Study Historical Japanese Prints Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1983944079147?aff=oddtdtcreator Costs: All free! In case you missed one, an overview of all DH colloquia can be found here: https://sadilar.org/en/dh-colloquium/ Share this with your colleagues, friends and family as well! -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received the e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender or reply e-mail and delete the e-mail and its attachments (where appropriate) from your system. ________________________________

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Call for Global DH Symposium watch parties (due 23 March) & registration reminder (due 27 March) | Convocatoria de Watch Parties del Simposio Global DH (fecha límite: 23 de marzo) & recordatorio de inscripción (fecha límite: 27 de marzo)
by Mapes, Kristen 03 Mar '26

03 Mar '26

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. Dear Global DH Community, We are looking forward to the 2026 Global Digital Humanities Symposium<https://msuglobaldh.org/>! We wanted to invite you to host or join a watch party, even if you are not presenting. This is a great way to participate in the symposium while creating community and networking with your colleagues. Watch parties can take place at any time of the symposium, on virtual days (Zoom) or in-person days (YouTube livestreaming), of any duration. There is funding available for organizers considering hosting a full-day watch party. More information is on the symposium website<https://msuglobaldh.org/watch-parties/>. If you are interested in hosting a watch party, please fill out this form<https://forms.gle/xXZutFAhkBvUBsNc6> by Monday, 23 March 2026. Also, please remember to register for the symposium<https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/register/event/74923> by Friday, 27 March 2026, if you have not. This year’s event will take place in-person on Monday, 13 April at Michigan State University (USA), virtually on Zoom and YouTube on Tuesday and Wednesday, 14-15 April, and in-person on Friday, 17 April at Universidad de Monterrey (Mexico). All days will be livestreamed. You can check out the conference program<https://msuglobaldh.org/schedule/> on our website. Sincerely, Kristen Mapes, Global DH Symposium Co-Chair —— Estimada comunidad global de Humanidades Digitales: ¡Esperamos con ansias el Simposio Global de Humanidades Digitales 2026<https://msuglobaldh.org/>! Los invitamos a organizar o unirse a una Watch Party o reunión de visionado, incluso si no participan como ponentes. Esta es una excelente manera de participar en el simposio, a la vez que crean comunidad y establecen contactos con sus colegas. Estas reuniones pueden tener lugar en cualquier momento del simposio, en días virtuales (Zoom) o presenciales (transmisión en vivo por YouTube) y ser de cualquier duración. Hay financiación disponible para quienes consideren organizar una reunión de un día completo. Pueden encontrar más información en el sitio web del simposio<https://msuglobaldh.org/watch-parties/>. Si les interesa organizar una de Watch Party, completen este formulario<https://forms.gle/xXZutFAhkBvUBsNc6> antes del lunes 23 de marzo de 2026. Si aún no lo han hecho, recuerden inscribirse en el simposio<https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/register/event/74923> antes del viernes 27 de marzo de 2026. El evento de este año se llevará a cabo presencialmente el lunes 13 de abril en la Universidad Estatal de Michigan (EE.UU.) , virtualmente por Zoom y YouTube el martes y miércoles 14 y 15 de abril, y presencialmente el viernes 17 de abril en la Universidad de Monterrey (México). Todos los días se transmitirán en vivo. Pueden consultar el programa de la conferencia<https://msuglobaldh.org/schedule/> en nuestro sitio web. ¡Los esperamos! Kristen Mapes Kristen Mapes Global Digital Humanities Symposium, Co-Chair Interim Director of Digital Humanities, College of Arts & Letters Michigan State University East Lansing, MI kmapes(a)msu.edu<mailto:kmapes@msu.edu> she/her

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Call for Papers: Connecting Codes: AI, Digital Humanities, and the Future of Information
by Rosenblum, Brian 24 Feb '26

24 Feb '26

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the call for papers for “Connecting Codes: AI, Digital Humanities, and the Future of Information,” a conference taking place at the Kenya National Library Service in Nairobi, June 16–18. Early‑career scholars and practitioners—as well as professionals working in libraries, archives, museums, and related information and cultural institutions—are especially encouraged to participate. Both in‑person and remote presentations are welcome. The proposal deadline is March 15. Please see below for further details. Brian Rosenblum Director, Institute for Globally Engaged Librarianship University of Kansas Libraries brianrosenblum(a)ku.edu<mailto:brianrosenblum@ku.edu> https://lib.ku.edu/igel Call for Papers Connecting Codes: AI, Digital Humanities, and the Future of Information Venue: Maktaba Kuu, Kenya National Library Service, Nairobi Dates: 16–18 June 2026 Organizers * Kenya National Library Service<https://www.knls.ac.ke/> * Technical University of Kenya, School of Graduate & Advanced Studies<https://sgas.tukenya.ac.ke/> * University of Kansas Libraries<https://lib.ku.edu/> Websites * Technical University of Kenya: https://sgas.tukenya.ac.ke/conference * University of Kansas Libraries, Institute for Globally Engaged Librarianship: https://lib.ku.edu/igel/connecting-codes Conference Overview Connecting Codes brings together scholars, librarians, heritage professionals, technologists, and students to explore the evolving relationships between artificial intelligence, digital humanities, and information institutions, with a particular emphasis on African contexts and perspectives. The conference title reflects the work of connecting multiple kinds of “codes”: technical systems such as software, data, and AI models; cultural and linguistic knowledge systems; and the institutional, ethical, and professional frameworks through which information is created, interpreted, preserved, and shared. The conference builds on a growing body of Africa-centered digital humanities and library work, including earlier convenings at the Technical University of Kenya and the Kenya National Library Service, as well as digital humanities initiatives at the University of Kansas<https://africandh.ku.edu/> that foreground Africa-based scholarship and diasporic perspectives. Important Dates * Abstract submission deadline: March 15, 2026 * Notification of acceptance: April 1, 2026 * Registration opens: April 15, 2026 * Draft materials due (optional): May 15, 2026 * Conference: June 16-18, 2026 * Final submissions for proceedings (optional): July 15, 2026 We welcome regional and international contributions that engage meaningfully with African knowledge systems, languages, infrastructures, and communities. While AI is a central lens, Connecting Codes also invites broader digital humanities and information-centered approaches that attend to context, equity, sustainability, and human expertise. Early-career scholars and practitioners, as well as professionals working in libraries, archives, museums, and related information and cultural institutions, are especially encouraged to participate. In-person and remote presentations are welcome. Conference Themes 1. Human–AI Collaboration and the Future of Knowledge Work This area explores how AI technologies intersect with human expertise in research, description, interpretation, and authorship. We welcome critical and practice-based perspectives on human–AI collaboration, including how workflows, responsibilities, scholarly labor, and professional roles are evolving within libraries, cultural institutions, and research environments in African and global contexts. 2. Methods and Practices in Digital Humanities and Information Studies This area invites contributions on digital humanities methods broadly conceived, including computational analysis, data modeling, metadata creation, visualization, and platform development. Submissions may also address non-computational and hybrid approaches, with particular attention to multilingual, low-resource, and context-specific practices in African and diasporic settings. 3. Equity, Ethics, and Responsibility in Digital and AI-Enabled Scholarship This area focuses on ethical, legal, and social questions surrounding AI and digital scholarship, including bias, accountability, intellectual property, data governance, and consent. We welcome work that critically examines responsible, inclusive, and culturally appropriate approaches to technology, particularly in relation to African communities, collections, and knowledge traditions. 4. Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Digital Heritage This area highlights libraries, archives, museums, and other memory institutions as active sites of digital humanities practice, stewardship, and innovation. Topics may include digitization, preservation, access, community-engaged heritage work, and the use—or critique—of AI and digital tools in managing, describing, and interpreting cultural heritage. 5. Digital Pedagogy: Teaching, Learning, and Capacity Building This area focuses on education, training, and professional development related to digital humanities and AI in academic, cultural, and community settings. Submissions may address curriculum design, skills development, mentorship, institutional capacity building, and strategies for supporting students and early-career professionals. Submission of Abstracts Submit your proposal via the online form at the Technical University of Kenya website: https://sgas.tukenya.ac.ke/conference Abstracts should articulate the purpose and significance of your work. Depending on your format and approach, this might include research questions, theoretical frameworks, methodologies, key findings, practical applications, or reflective insights. For enquires please contact Tom Kwanya Email: tkwanya(a)tukenya.ac.ke<mailto:tkwanya@tukenya.ac.ke> Brian Rosenblum Email: brianrosenblum(a)ku.edu<mailto:brianrosenblum@ku.edu>

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Final CfP and deadline extension Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL)@LREC
by Menno Van Zaanen 24 Feb '26

24 Feb '26

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. Final Call for Papers and deadline extension! Seventh Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) Co-located with LREC 2026 RAIL Workshop date: 12 May 2026 RAIL website: https://sadilar.org/en/seventh-workshop-on-resources-for-african-indigenous… Submission link for the RAIL workshop: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/RAIL2026/ LREC Conference dates: 11-16 May 2026 LREC website: https://www.elra.info/lrec2026/ Venue: Palau de Congressos de Palma, Palma de Mallorca (Spain) The Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop provides an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on resources such as data collections and annotations, Human Language Technologies (HLT) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools, and their applications, specifically targeted towards African indigenous languages. In particular, it aims to create the conditions for the emergence of a scientific community of practice that focuses on data, as well as computational linguistic tools specifically designed for or applied to indigenous languages found in Africa. The seventh Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop will be co-located with the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2026 in Palau de Congressos de Palma, Palma, Mallorca (Spain). Many African languages are under-resourced while only a few are considered to be somewhat better resourced. These languages often share interesting properties such as writing systems, making them different from most high-resourced languages. From a computational perspective, these languages lack enough corpora to undertake high level development of NLP and HLT tools, which in turn impedes the development of African languages in these areas. During previous workshops, it was noted that the problems and solutions presented were not only applicable to African languages but were also relevant to many other low-resource languages across the world. Because these languages share similar challenges, this workshop provides researchers with opportunities to work collaboratively on issues of language resource development and learn from each other. The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, the workshop brings together researchers who work on African indigenous languages, forming a community of practice for people working on indigenous languages. Second, the workshop aims to reveal currently unknown or unpublished existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and applications), resulting in a better overview of the current state-of-the-art, and also allows for discussions on novel, desired resources for future research in this area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the development of low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to improve the quality as well as availability of the resources. The workshop theme is “Creating resources for less-resourced African languages”, but submissions on any topic related to properties of African indigenous languages (including related non-African languages) may be accepted. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) the following: * Digital representations of linguistic structures * Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous languages * Building resources for (under-resourced) African indigenous languages * Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age * Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African indigenous languages * Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African indigenous languages * Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages * Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African indigenous language resources * Applications that make use of data collections of African indigenous languages Submission requirements: We invite papers on original, unpublished work related to the topics of the workshop. Submissions, presenting completed work, should adhere to the LREC conference requirements. These requirements are described in LREC’s authors kit: https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/. The submission should be double blind and each submission should be between four and eight pages. Only oral papers should be submitted. The maximum number of pages excludes a compulsory ethics statement, discussion on limitations, and references and optional acknowledgements, as well as data and code availability statements if applicable. Appendices or supplementary material are allowed, but this information will not necessarily be taken into account during the review process. The submission link for the RAIL workshop: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/RAIL2026/ Authors are encouraged to upload their datasets to the SADiLaR repository: https://repo.sadilar.org/. In case of difficulties uploading the datasets, please reach out to Benito Trollip (benito.trollip(a)nwu.ac.za). Important dates: Submission deadline: 1 March 2026 AoE Date of notification: 11 March 2026 AoE Camera ready copy deadline: 30 March 2026 AoE Workshop: 12 May 2026 Organising Committee: Muzi Matfunjwa, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Rooweither Mabuya, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. 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DH colloquium and SADiLex events
by Menno Van Zaanen 13 Feb '26

13 Feb '26

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. The DH colloquium is expanding! The next DH colloquium takes place on 25 February 2026 from 10:00 to 11:00 SAST: Sikose Mjali will present Digitising Resistance: Tracing Apartheid Job Reservation Through a Corpus of Sechaba (1967-1990) You can register (for free) here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-humanities-colloquium-featuring-siko… Additionally, we will have our first SADiLex presentation! SADiLex is a new webinar series dedicated to lexicography, bringing together leading voices to explore the theory, practice, and future of dictionaries and language innovation. Join us for the inaugural session with Prof Danie Prinsloo on the past, present and future of African languages lexicography. On 18 February 2026 from 14:00 to 15:00 (SAST) You can register (for free) here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sadilex-18-february-2026-tickets-19827705430… Please share this with your colleagues, friends and family! -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received the e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender or reply e-mail and delete the e-mail and its attachments (where appropriate) from your system. ________________________________

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talk on Ukrainian Libraries in the Time of Russia’s War Against Ukraine
by Rosenblum, Brian 05 Feb '26

05 Feb '26

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. Dear colleagues, Global Conversations in Librarianship is a new speaker series organized by the Institute for Globally Engaged Librarianship<https://lib.ku.edu/igel> at the University of Kansas Libraries, highlighting international perspectives on libraries and information work. Our inaugural speaker will be Tetyana Yaroshenko, Deputy Director for Research and International Affairs at the State Scientific and Technical Library of Ukraine. She will present “Ukrainian Libraries in the Time of Russia’s War Against Ukraine” via Zoom webinar on February 26 at 11:00 a.m. US Eastern / 4:00 p.m. GMT. Taking place two days after the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the talk will examine the systematic destruction of Ukrainian cultural institutions—libraries, archives, and museums—during the ongoing war. In addition to addressing wartime resilience, preservation initiatives, and future reconstruction efforts, Yaroshenko will analyze how the deliberate targeting of cultural heritage constitutes what she terms cultural genocide, aimed at erasing Ukrainian culture, history, and national identity. More information is available here: https://news.ku.edu/news/article/ku-libraries-launches-global-speaker-serie… Registration link: https://kansas.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pPQEMKPKSeaNvx1CyUhK6A#/registra… Please feel free to share this event with others who may be interested. We are also actively seeking speakers from different world regions to highlight compelling projects, practices, and research of broad interest. If you have suggestions, please do get in touch. Warm regards, Brian, -- Brian Rosenblum Director, Institute for Globally Engaged Librarianship: https://lib.ku.edu/igel University of Kansas Libraries Watson 450, 1425 Jayhawk Blvd Lawrence, KS 66045 brianrosenblum(a)ku.edu<mailto:brianrosenblum@ku.edu>

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Second CfP Seventh Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL)@LREC
by Menno Van Zaanen 28 Jan '26

28 Jan '26

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. Second Call for Papers Seventh Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) Co-located with LREC 2026 RAIL Workshop date: 12 May 2026 RAIL website: https://sadilar.org/en/seventh-workshop-on-resources-for-african-indigenous… Submission link for the RAIL workshop: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/RAIL2026/ LREC Conference dates: 11-16 May 2026 LREC website: https://www.elra.info/lrec2026/ Venue: Palau de Congressos de Palma, Palma de Mallorca (Spain) The Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop provides an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on resources such as data collections and annotations, Human Language Technologies (HLT) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools, and their applications, specifically targeted towards African indigenous languages. In particular, it aims to create the conditions for the emergence of a scientific community of practice that focuses on data, as well as computational linguistic tools specifically designed for or applied to indigenous languages found in Africa. The seventh Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop will be co-located with the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2026 in Palau de Congressos de Palma, Palma, Mallorca (Spain). Many African languages are under-resourced while only a few are considered to be somewhat better resourced. These languages often share interesting properties such as writing systems, making them different from most high-resourced languages. From a computational perspective, these languages lack enough corpora to undertake high level development of NLP and HLT tools, which in turn impedes the development of African languages in these areas. During previous workshops, it was noted that the problems and solutions presented were not only applicable to African languages but were also relevant to many other low-resource languages across the world. Because these languages share similar challenges, this workshop provides researchers with opportunities to work collaboratively on issues of language resource development and learn from each other. The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, the workshop brings together researchers who work on African indigenous languages, forming a community of practice for people working on indigenous languages. Second, the workshop aims to reveal currently unknown or unpublished existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and applications), resulting in a better overview of the current state-of-the-art, and also allows for discussions on novel, desired resources for future research in this area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the development of low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to improve the quality as well as availability of the resources. The workshop theme is “Creating resources for less-resourced African languages”, but submissions on any topic related to properties of African indigenous languages (including related non-African languages) may be accepted. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) the following: * Digital representations of linguistic structures * Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous languages * Building resources for (under-resourced) African indigenous languages * Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age * Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African indigenous languages * Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African indigenous languages * Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages * Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African indigenous language resources * Applications that make use of data collections of African indigenous languages Submission requirements: We invite papers on original, unpublished work related to the topics of the workshop. Submissions, presenting completed work, should adhere to the LREC conference requirements. These requirements are described in LREC’s authors kit: https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/. The submission should be double blind and each submission should be between four and eight pages. Only oral papers should be submitted. The maximum number of pages excludes a compulsory ethics statement, discussion on limitations, and references and optional acknowledgements, as well as data and code availability statements if applicable. Appendices or supplementary material are allowed, but this information will not necessarily be taken into account during the review process. The submission link for the RAIL workshop: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/RAIL2026/ Authors are encouraged to upload their datasets to the SADiLaR repository: https://repo.sadilar.org/. In case of difficulties uploading the datasets, please reach out to Benito Trollip (benito.trollip(a)nwu.ac.za). Important dates: Submission deadline: 23 February 2026 AoE Date of notification: 11 March 2026 AoE Camera ready copy deadline: 30 March 2026 AoE Workshop: 12 May 2026 Organising Committee: Muzi Matfunjwa, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Rooweither Mabuya, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. 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